Héctor Tobar

Héctor Tobar (* 1963 in Los Angeles ) is an American novelist and journalist. His works explore the relationship between Latin America and the United States.

Tobar, son of immigrants from Guatemala, graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz and graduated from the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of California, Irvine.

After he passed the offices of the Los Angeles Times in Mexico City and Buenos Aires, it is now writes weekly columns for the newspaper.

For their reports on the riots in Los Angeles in 1992, the team of the LA Times won the Pulitzer Prize with Héctor Tobar.

The magazine Hispanic Business Tobar scored 2006 on the 100 most influential Hispanics in the United States.

Works

• The Tattooed Soldier, Delphinium Books, Penguin Books, 1998, ISBN 978-1-883285-15-9
• Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish -Speaking United States, Riverhead Books, 2005, ISBN 978-1-57322-305-8
• The Barbarian Nurseries, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011. Germany: In the houses of the Barbarians ( Piper, 2012)